Fastener for buttons and other articles.



0. D. BELL. FASTENEB FOR BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLIOTIOR FILED AYE. 24, 1912.

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one D. BELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FABTENER FOB BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTIQLEB.

Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

Application ma April a4, 1912. Serial No. 092,019.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Q'ris D. Benn, a c1t1- zen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

ject of the invention is to provide an improved arrangement of thefastening cord and friction disks whereby the button may be convenientlyand firmly fastened to the garment without sewing, and without theliability of the button becoming loose.

The invention will be partlcularly explained in the specific descriptionhereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in. which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my 1mproved fastener; Fig. 2 is asectional view through the fastener and through a button and a portionof a garment; and Fig. 3 is a rear or inner side view of the fasteningdisks and cord in the fastened position.

The cord, forming part of my fastening means, is doubled on 1tself atsubstantially its center of length, into aloop 10, which loop is passedaround the article to be fastened, or through the same. In Fig. 2 thebend of the loop lies against the face of a button 20, the sides 11 ofthe loop being passed through eyes 12in the button. The cords at theinner side of. the button are brought into close relation and passedthrough the arment 25 to the" rear side of the fur or abric formingsaidj. garment. The cord is passed from the loop through an eyelet 13which secures together a plain base disk 14 and an outer notchedcord-lockin disk 15. The locking disk 15 is formed wit diametricallyopposite notches 16 in the peand involves a cord having looped en-.

- riphery, and the ends of the cord are passed from the eyelet 13radially, as at 17, over the rear face of the locking disk 15 in op-.posite directions and inward through the notches 16. The free ends ofthe cord are then wound one within another to formalternate convolutions18, 18, as close to the eyelet as the friction between the disks willpermit. It will be observed that the eyelet 13 forms an eye common toboth of the disks, and a means for fastening the disks together. Thusthe ends of the loop in the cord run freely from the loop engaging thebut-ton or other article, throu h the eyelet -to the back of the notchedlocking disk, and

reliance is had on the tension of the cord to hold the button or otherarticle without sewing or tying. The button thus has such flexibleconnection with the garment as to permit of the button being engagedwith a button hole conveniently, and yet the button is held so firmly asto not pull out or strain the fabric, since the strain will come on theeyelet, the outer end of which lies tightly against the back of thefabric 25.

I The plain base disk 14 is of larger diameter than the notched lockingdisk 15, and with thedescribed arrangement of the cord, having the loopfreely passing through the eye common to both disks, when the ends ofthe cord have been passed through the notches 1.6 to the space betweenthe disks, the wider disk supports the two ends of the cord, and eitherend may, be grasped and wound around the eyelet between the disks, thecord thus grasped serving to carry the other end around with it so thatthe two ends of the cord will be wound in alternate convolutions. Thedescribed arran ement of the disks and cord results in firm y fasteningthe button in position without sewing or without the formation of knots,and the convolutions of the cord between the disks lie in thesame plane,each convolution or partial convolution addin its frictional biteagainst the portions 19 o the cord that lie between the disks and rangetangentially to the eyelet and extend'to the notches, thus faces of thedisks, will lie substantially smooth and the button-fastening means willproduce no ronounced protuberances,

1 Having t us described my invention, I

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claim as new and-desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The herein-describel fastening means for buttons and other articles,consisting of a plain base disk, an outerdisk of less diameter than theplain disk and having pelripheral notches at two diametrically OPPO,

site points, a central eye and fastening device common to the two disks,anda cord doubled on itself forming a substantially central fasteningloop for embracing the button or other article to be secured, bothlengths of the cord adjacent to the loop pass ing through the centraleye common to the two disks and freely sliding therein, the

cord extendin from said central eye radiouter-disks to the spacebetwtfiftlfe disks, adapted to be allyoutw (1 1n opposite directions andinward through t eperipheralnotches of the the ends of the cord beingwound in a similar direction in alternate convolutions over inwardlyextending tangential portions of the cord, the convolutions being in thesame plane and being frictionally held between the opposed surfacesofthe disks.- v a 2. The herein-described fastening means for buttonsand other articles, consisting of a base disk, an outer disk of lessdiameter than the base disk and having two notches in its periphery, thedisks having a central eye passing through both, and a cord doubled onitself forming a substantially central fastening loop for embracing thebutton or other article, both stretches'of the cord adjacent to the loopassin throu h the eye common to the disks to ave 9. rec movementtherein, the cord extending from the eye outward to the periphery of thesmaller disk and through the notches therein to the space between thedisks, the two ends of the cord being adapted to be wound intoconvolutions lying in the same lane between the disks and frictionallyhel by said disks.

i In testimony whereof, I have signed my

